The Value of Water in a dry land – Photos from the Omo River Basin

Africa: Kenya; Eliye Springs, water pump built in ’92 for traditional Turkana village

Africa: Kenya; Pokot Land, Lomut, child collecting rainwater from gutter in thunderstorm, a CABESI project

Ethiopia: Lower Omo River Basin, Kundama farm for Karo’s village of Duss, fish for sale

Africa: Kenya; North Rift District, Eliye Springs on Lake Turkana

Africa: Kenya; Pokot Land, Orwa, CABESI Kitchen without Borders project, vegetable garden plot, seedlings

 

Ethiopia: Kundama Farm, a Duss tribal farming community, a 2-day-old Karo baby with its mother

 

Ethiopia: Omo Delta at low water stage, herders lead cattle to water

 

Africa: Kenya; Turkana Land, man pushing cart of gerry cans to be filled with water from the river outside of town

 

Africa: Kenya; Karakol, dried tilapia headed to markets in Kisimu, Nairobi and elsewhere

 

Ethiopia: Omo Delta, Dassenech village of Ilokelete, in low water season, woman carrying fodder for goats

 

Ethiopia: cattle drinking from the Omo River

Africa: Kenya; Eliye Springs on Lake Turkana, sunrise

Ethiopia: Omo River Basin, Duss, a Karo tribal village, woman with jugs for water and young son on bank of Omo River

– Posted by Jasmine Graf, NWNL Associate Director